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Businessman: US Must Heed Electronic Terror Threat
Post Date: 2009-08-14 19:19:53 by Brian S
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(08-14) 15:20 PDT Elma, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York businessman is sounding the alarm on a potential terror threat that he says has not gotten the attention or action it deserves, despite a congressional committee's finding that the country grows more vulnerable to it by the day. Henry Schwartz, chairman of Steuben Foods and Elmhurst Dairy, is so concerned that an enemy's electromagnetic pulse attack could paralyze America that he will gather a group of scientists, congressmen and others for a conference next month on how the country should protect itself. "I've never lived in fear in my life," said Schwartz, 75, an Air Force veteran whose unit handled nuclear warheads ...
Judge Rules DVD-Copying Software Is Illegal
Post Date: 2009-08-13 20:31:14 by christine
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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge ruled here late Tuesday that it was unlawful to traffic in goods to copy DVDs. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel’s ruling came in a decision in which she declared RealNetworks’ DVD copying software was illegal. She barred it from being distributed. Patel said the RealDVD software violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 that prohibits the circumvention of encryption technology. DVDs are encrypted with what is known as the Content Scramble System, and DVD players must secure a license to play discs. RealDVD, she ruled, circumvents technology designed to prevent copying. But the decision, although mixed, left open the door ...
Vaccine Court...WTF
Post Date: 2009-08-13 18:00:18 by Itistoolate
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Perseids Meteor Shower Continues Tonight
Post Date: 2009-08-12 20:46:53 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Strong Meteor Shower Expected Tonight - Yahoo! News ... news.yahoo.com/s/.../strongmeteorshowerexpectedtonight : "....The Perseids appear to emanate from the constellation Perseus, which rises high in the sky around midnight and is nearly overhead by dawn. Like most meteor showers, the hours between midnight and daybreak are typically the best time to watch, because that's when the side of Earth you are on is rotating into the direction of Earth's travels through space, so meteors are "scooped up" by the atmosphere at higher rates, much like a car's windshield ends the lives of more bugs than does the rear bumper. Astronomers expect up to 200 meteors per ...
China Warns Against an Arms Race in Space
Post Date: 2009-08-12 18:19:50 by farmfriend
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China Warns Against an Arms Race in Space Written by James Heiser Wednesday, 12 August 2009 12:30 Building on a February 2008 proposal by the governments of China and Russia, the communist regime in the People’s Republic of China is now pushing for a ban on weapons in space. According to an Associated Press story, Yang Jiechi, the Chinese foreign minister, addressed the topic today at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. AP quotes Yang as follows, "Outer space is now facing the looming danger of weaponization. Credible and effective multilateral measures must be taken to forestall the weaponization and arms race in outer space." Given the fact that China and the ...
Braking recharge will give GM Chev Volt 230 MPG
Post Date: 2009-08-12 06:33:09 by Tatarewicz
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GM's Chev Volt extended range electric vehicle is expected to get a fuel economy rating of 230 miles/gallon from the EPA, largely as a result of "charge-while-braking" in city driving. The Volt's range on a single charge will be 40 miles but it will be able to extend the range to more than 300 miles with "flex fuel-power engine-generator." Combined city and highway driving will more likely be 124 mpg. Toyata Prius is rated at 51 mpg and Ford's Fusion hybrid at 41. The Chev Volt is to go on sale next year, selling for approximately $40,000. Click for Full Text!
Are Environmentalists Responsible for Global Warming?
Post Date: 2009-08-11 06:39:11 by Ada
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Despite what many environmentalists would have you believe, nobody is really sure about the causes of global warming. Certainly, the earth has warmed over the past century, but perhaps that is only because it had cooled so much since Roman times. I imagine that had today's environmentalists been alive a thousand years ago, they'd be chastising people for burning wood and coal to keep warm and cook food. After all, anyone could see all the smoke rising up to the sky, blocking the warmth of the sun. Today, of course, no right-thinking person believes that burning wood and coal will lead to another ice age. This is the new millennium, after all, and we left such silly beliefs back in ...
Akridge Energy Buys 400 MW Free Energy Generator from BlackLight Power
Post Date: 2009-08-10 19:32:34 by gengis gandhi
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I know it may sound like science fiction, but if you remember we talked about BlackLight Power’s invention last year, you surely do remember it was about free energy. BlackLight’s hydrino (a hydrogen atom with a lower energy state than it was previously thought possible) stirred controversy in scientists’ world, bringing them bad fame as seekers of “free energy” and associating BlackLight Power with a scammer’s image. On July 30, BlackLight Power announced a commercial license agreement with Maryland-based Akridge Energy. BLP will allow Akridge to use their energy producing process for generating electricity in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Colombia, ...
Study: Redheads' extra pain may cause fear of dentists
Post Date: 2009-08-06 14:29:45 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Study: Redheads' extra pain may cause fear of dentists By Madison Park CNN (CNN) -- Despite two injections of anesthetic, Amy Anderson felt like her dentist was jamming rods into her tooth during a root canal. She writhed in pain as her infected tooth was hollowed with a drill, its nerve amputated, and then sealed. "I knew this time something was wrong. I could feel my lips," said the Syracuse, New York, resident, who told her dentist the drugs weren't working. Her doctor kept assuring her she had given her a proper dose and said: "I'm almost done." "I was hurting so bad, I was hitting myself in the stomach," said Anderson, a redhead. "I ...
IR camera catches weird stuff above crop circle area
Post Date: 2009-08-05 11:55:18 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1596&category=Environment
Are sunspots changing and will that take us to an Ice Age?
Post Date: 2009-08-01 16:48:58 by farmfriend
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re sunspots changing and will that take us to an Ice Age? Kirtland Griffin The answer to the title question is really, nobody knows. But there are some indications that the sunspot activity is not only reduced but has also changed in ways that may indicate a further reduction of the sunspots including having none. First a little note on the status of the major scientific societies in the US. What do these two disparate facts have to do with each other? Let's see. I had been familiar with the American Physical Society for the past year or two through my association with Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford. It seems that the leadership of the APS was quite ...
Chill out! July coolest on record
Post Date: 2009-08-01 13:35:07 by Esso
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Chill out! July coolest on record This July will go into the record books as the coolest for this region [Fort Wayne] in recorded history. Only four days during the month reached average or above-average temperatures. The lower-than-normal temperatures were recorded across parts of northeast Indiana, southwest Michigan and northwest Ohio, according to the northern Indiana office of the National Weather Service. Final temperature statistics for July will be tallied today, but Friday’s high temperature of 79 degrees was a continuation of the unusual summer season. A pool of cool, low pressure that remained over the Fort Wayne area is the cause for the unseasonably cool month, ...
Licensing issues threaten to shut Skype down for good
Post Date: 2009-07-31 10:06:58 by James Deffenbach
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Skype - in danger of shutting down, or just about to be re-acquired from eBay in a billion-dollar corporate chess game? When eBay bought Skype from Joltid in 2005, the whopping US$2.6 billion price tag didn't include the Global Index peer-to-peer software that the world's biggest Internet Telephony system is based on. And now, Joltid is trying to cancel Skype's license on the Global Index technology in a move that threatens to shut Skype down once and for all. Is it just a canny commercial chess move to force eBay to sell Skype back to Joltid at a huge discount - or is it the end of Skype as we know it? Skype is not only the world's biggest Internet Telephony engine - ...
Strap On 4 Homemade Rockets and Say Your Prayers
Post Date: 2009-07-30 19:57:26 by tom007
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Strap On 4 Homemade Rockets and Say Your Prayers * By Keith Barry Email Author * July 30, 2009 | * 12:52 pm | * Categories: Air Travel, Autopia WTF? Dept. * new-bikw-7-09-008 Jumping from an airplane is much too tame for Bob Maddox. He needs something a little more extreme. That’s why he plans to strap himself to a four-engine pulse jet rocket, ride it to around 25,000 feet and then jump off. You might remember Bob from our stories about his pulse jet bikes. The first one got up to 50 mph. That wasn’t fast enough for Bob, who built a twin-engine bike that hit 73 mph. Now he’s back with his latest idea, which amounts to shooting himself almost five miles into the sky and ...
iPhone Passion app rates your sexual skills
Post Date: 2009-07-29 17:21:10 by James Deffenbach
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http://www.gizmag.com/iphone-passion-app-sex-rating/12365/?utm
Poster Comment:you can't make this $#it up! Click on link if you are interested in the article.
History Channel Documentary Validates Chemtrails and Weather Warfare Airs July25 4pm
Post Date: 2009-07-28 16:36:22 by gengis gandhi
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Poster Comment:duh. remember a few summers ago when there were like six hurricanes lined up heading for the gulf....or that one funky hurricane that did a 180 degree turn off the east coast.nah, just contrails.
Python lacks microchip but officials are still looking for its owner
Post Date: 2009-07-27 22:00:33 by Dakmar
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Wildlife officials still hope to find the owner of a 14-foot Burmese python that was dragged this weekend from a storm drain in Bradenton, but their job was made more difficult on Monday: A scan of the python found no microchip that would identify the owner. Gary Morse, a spokesman with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said wildlife investigators will ask questions and try to find the original owner. Morse said it becomes more difficult to locate someone with a snake that was not microchipped. But someone might have information that can help investigators, he said. "It is unlikely that someone would have a snake that large and neighbors and acquaintances would ...
You're Appointing Who? Please, Obama, Say It Isn't So.
Post Date: 2009-07-26 17:27:25 by abraxas
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You're Appointing Who? Please, Obama, Say It Isn't So. The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke. Here's the back story. When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply -- the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods -- secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried "serious health hazards," and ...
Neanderthal + Homo Sapiens = Large Brains
Post Date: 2009-07-26 13:55:08 by Turtle
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Could Interbreeding Between Humans and Neanderthals Have Led to an Enhanced Human Brain? Might mating between an ancient human and a Neanderthal - perhaps occurring in only a single instance - have introduced a gene variant into the human population that enhanced human brain function? That question is at the heart of a new study by researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago. The new research, which was published online during the week of November 6, 2006, in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests that human evolution was not just a matter of spontaneous advantageous mutations arising within the human ...
Weed killer kills human cells. Study intensifies debate over 'inert' ingredients.
Post Date: 2009-07-25 22:21:30 by gengis gandhi
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Weed killer kills human cells. Study intensifies debate over 'inert' ingredients. Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have found that one of Roundup’s inert ingredients can kill human cells, particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells. The new findings intensify a debate about so-called “inerts” — the solvents, preservatives, surfactants and other substances that manufacturers add to pesticides. Nearly 4,000 inert ingredients are approved for use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. By Crystal Gammon Environmental Health News June 22, 2009 Used in ...
Money Relieves Pain
Post Date: 2009-07-25 10:27:55 by DeaconBenjamin
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Money dulls physical pain and eases the sting of social rejection, new research shows. Through six experiments, psychologists and a marketing professor probed the power of money as a proxy for social acceptance. Among their results, they found that merely touching bills or thinking about expenses paid affected the participants both physically and emotionally. Because it affects pain, money may be a clue to how the brain evolved to process social interactions, the researchers wrote in a paper published in the June edition of the journal Psychological Science. In one experiment, 84 undergraduate student volunteers were divided into two groups and asked to take a "finger-dexterity ...
Buzz Aldrin Reveals Existence of Monolith on Mars Moon (CSPAN Video)
Post Date: 2009-07-23 15:02:03 by gengis gandhi
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Poster Comment:weather balloon.
Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips
Post Date: 2009-07-22 21:50:55 by Itistoolate
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Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips Posted by harbinger on Jul 12th, 2009 and filed under Exposed, Featured News, Photo Gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips Is Micro-chipping the World Behind Switch to DTV? According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout ...
This is "Global Warming," Summer '09 Edition
Post Date: 2009-07-22 16:38:52 by James Deffenbach
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This is "Global Warming," Summer '09 Edition By Debbie Schlussel Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know the global warming cultists will tell me it's not about "global warming" anymore--that they've adjusted the false theory of their cult to accommodate the refutative, unseasonally cool temperatures, and that it's now "climate change." BTW, climate change is normal--it's called "weather." Ignore their BS and check out these temps from from the latest exhibit in "global warming." The South and Midwest have been experiencing record-low temperatures, turning summer topsy-turvy. "It's more like spring or fall," Weather ...
Fish shrinking due to global warming
Post Date: 2009-07-20 23:16:04 by buckeroo
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 » 09:16am Fish have lost half their average body mass and smaller species are making up a larger proportion of European fish stocks as a result of global warming. 'It's huge,' said study author Martin Daufresne of the Cemagref Public Agricultural and Environmental Research Institute in Lyon, France. 'Size is a fundamental characteristic that is linked to a number of biological functions, such as fecundity - the capacity to reproduce.' Smaller fish tend to produce fewer eggs. They also provide less sustenance for predators - including humans - which could have significant implications for the food chain and ecosystem. A similar shrinking ...
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